The new taxes will be ring fenced to fund public transport projects, right?
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Wonder when we can get decent public transport. I start work at 5.45 and there’s no bus to my job. This in Waterford City, not the backarse of nowhere. Having buses that are on time and some notification if a buses won’t show up is a problem.
More stick.
This isn’t plastic bags all over again. People drive because they have to. We see massive fluctuations in fuel prices, and steady rises in the price of cars and insurance and still people drive. Provide a public transport service that competes on speed and convenience and then you’ll see some changes.
How about they get fucked with bringing in new taxes for the moment?
Tax revenue is running at a massively unexpected surplus yet peoples cost of living is huge with disposable income in the gutter.
Improve alternate and reliable systems of transport BEFORE you implement restrictions or additional costs on the modes of transport that people currently rely on.
Stop being a prick Eamonn. We get the green adjenda and all, but you seem to be going out of your way to actively damage the average person in Ireland’s life for the sake of a carbon quota that the nation won’t reach anyway.
How about you put some of that energy into regulating that every single new build of house & apartment must incorporate solar?
Fucking twat.
Can’t wait for these taxes to hit rural areas, where they have no alternative but to use their cars.
Surely this will help the green movement going forward, and won’t result in a huge backlash against the greens?
Eamon could review the Super Mario movie and it would include a paragraph about reducing car usage.
Could anything be said for another round of work from home.
” aims to reduce congestion in towns and cities, improve air quality, and provide more and safer space for public transport, walking, and cycling. ”
Have to ask why do we have congestion? Because people need to travel through those towns to get somewhere.
Solution is better transport infrastructure- underground in cities. Bypass for towns (a lot have already).
More taxation does not solve these problems. It may provide funding eventually for this. But immediate cut of infrastructure (reduce road space for vehicles) on the future promise of infrastructure is not the way to go. Build the infrastructure first and people will change habits later (by persuasion, coercion or prohibtion)
Everyone seems to be moaning about funding
It has actually been massively increased particularly in last years budget
Sucks that public transport is so bad here in some places.
Are they taxing private jets heavily as well or are they still talking about it ?
Or was it an outright ban in Irish air space ?
I’m sure this genius strategy will fix it right up.
At the moment public transport is overpriced, unreliable and inconsistent. Until that changes I’ll be driving my car for my 40 minute drive instead of a 2 hour public transport option
Had to get the bus to the airport a while ago in the dead of night. Since they only went every few hours I had to get it way ahead of the time I needed, which turned out handy since I got to watch the bus sit in the local petrol station for 30 minutes past its due time on the live tracker. And I wasn’t too badly off, since the girl waiting with me on the road alone in the dark had been there for the previous one, and it hadn’t come at all.
We do not have a functional public transport alternative in this country, and the problem isn’t traffic. These aren’t problems we can fine or tax our way out of, so this stuff cannot serve its stated purpose.
I don’t have a car, but this is ridiculous. Just last night from 21:35 to 22:15 I stood at a bus stop in Drimnagh and none of the buses that were on the monitor or in the app ever showed up. I ended up having to take a taxi. Provide barebones public transport before you start reducing car usage…
How about we impose taxes on Eamon Ryan.. the emissions from his mouth probably rival the gasses produced from the entire agricultural sector
The beatings will continue..
Is there anything to be said for another tax?
Oh, yay…….
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TFI cut a bus and a train service from Carlow to Dublin that I used several times a week. It was always packed. When I queried them about it, they said there was plenty of private services offering that route. The private services are longer, more expensive and less frequent. There’s a 3 hour gap in services leaving Carlow to Dublin now daily. I have had no choice but to return to driving my car for those trips.
TFI dont care about public transport. They are trying to privatise public transfer, move it into private companies that they don’t have to manage, and then still recoup tax increases like this? Its absolute madness.
This worked already. I’ll never be able to afford a car in my life. Well I could if insurance wasn’t an issue.
It’s like the government taking a shit on your head and then asking do you like your new hat?
Genius idea. Let’s tax cars. Amazing no one has ever come up with that idea before.
Does that mean we can have trains in Donegal and actual local busses?
Its jokes when I have friends visit from Dublin and ask are we getting the bus somewhere………
WHAT BUS
Now remember he said “more space” for public transport not “more public transport”
These people are fucking mental, provide the public transport first
Offer little to no viable public transport outside of Dublin. Then try to ‘reduce car usage’, Can’t wait to elect these cunts out to fuck.
Oh.. A tax? What a wild new way of looking at things.
That’s why I love our government – always re-inventing themselves with shocking brilliance. Never afraid to try a different approach and trailblaze a new path for a better future.
Climate change! The gift that keeps on giving!
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They’ll suck every last hydrogen atom out of that ball! Eamon is sucking much of the helium already.
Waiting for all the urban dwelling, working from home, college educated bourgeoisie to tell me how this is a great idea. Somehow in their head they’ll find a way to justify Punitive taxes that disproportionately hit the working poor and the rural poor. Cunts.
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The new taxes will be ring fenced to fund public transport projects, right?
[deleted]
Wonder when we can get decent public transport. I start work at 5.45 and there’s no bus to my job. This in Waterford City, not the backarse of nowhere. Having buses that are on time and some notification if a buses won’t show up is a problem.
More stick.
This isn’t plastic bags all over again. People drive because they have to. We see massive fluctuations in fuel prices, and steady rises in the price of cars and insurance and still people drive. Provide a public transport service that competes on speed and convenience and then you’ll see some changes.
How about they get fucked with bringing in new taxes for the moment?
Tax revenue is running at a massively unexpected surplus yet peoples cost of living is huge with disposable income in the gutter.
Improve alternate and reliable systems of transport BEFORE you implement restrictions or additional costs on the modes of transport that people currently rely on.
Stop being a prick Eamonn. We get the green adjenda and all, but you seem to be going out of your way to actively damage the average person in Ireland’s life for the sake of a carbon quota that the nation won’t reach anyway.
How about you put some of that energy into regulating that every single new build of house & apartment must incorporate solar?
Fucking twat.
Can’t wait for these taxes to hit rural areas, where they have no alternative but to use their cars.
Surely this will help the green movement going forward, and won’t result in a huge backlash against the greens?
Eamon could review the Super Mario movie and it would include a paragraph about reducing car usage.
Could anything be said for another round of work from home.
” aims to reduce congestion in towns and cities, improve air quality, and provide more and safer space for public transport, walking, and cycling. ”
Have to ask why do we have congestion? Because people need to travel through those towns to get somewhere.
Solution is better transport infrastructure- underground in cities. Bypass for towns (a lot have already).
More taxation does not solve these problems. It may provide funding eventually for this. But immediate cut of infrastructure (reduce road space for vehicles) on the future promise of infrastructure is not the way to go. Build the infrastructure first and people will change habits later (by persuasion, coercion or prohibtion)
Everyone seems to be moaning about funding
It has actually been massively increased particularly in last years budget
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/9d6ba-budget-2023-continues-to-keep-costs-down-for-commuters-and-ensures-that-transport-developments-can-continue-at-pace/
Sucks that public transport is so bad here in some places.
Are they taxing private jets heavily as well or are they still talking about it ?
Or was it an outright ban in Irish air space ?
I’m sure this genius strategy will fix it right up.
At the moment public transport is overpriced, unreliable and inconsistent. Until that changes I’ll be driving my car for my 40 minute drive instead of a 2 hour public transport option
Had to get the bus to the airport a while ago in the dead of night. Since they only went every few hours I had to get it way ahead of the time I needed, which turned out handy since I got to watch the bus sit in the local petrol station for 30 minutes past its due time on the live tracker. And I wasn’t too badly off, since the girl waiting with me on the road alone in the dark had been there for the previous one, and it hadn’t come at all.
We do not have a functional public transport alternative in this country, and the problem isn’t traffic. These aren’t problems we can fine or tax our way out of, so this stuff cannot serve its stated purpose.
I don’t have a car, but this is ridiculous. Just last night from 21:35 to 22:15 I stood at a bus stop in Drimnagh and none of the buses that were on the monitor or in the app ever showed up. I ended up having to take a taxi. Provide barebones public transport before you start reducing car usage…
How about we impose taxes on Eamon Ryan.. the emissions from his mouth probably rival the gasses produced from the entire agricultural sector
The beatings will continue..
Is there anything to be said for another tax?
Oh, yay…….
[deleted]
TFI cut a bus and a train service from Carlow to Dublin that I used several times a week. It was always packed. When I queried them about it, they said there was plenty of private services offering that route. The private services are longer, more expensive and less frequent. There’s a 3 hour gap in services leaving Carlow to Dublin now daily. I have had no choice but to return to driving my car for those trips.
TFI dont care about public transport. They are trying to privatise public transfer, move it into private companies that they don’t have to manage, and then still recoup tax increases like this? Its absolute madness.
This worked already. I’ll never be able to afford a car in my life. Well I could if insurance wasn’t an issue.
It’s like the government taking a shit on your head and then asking do you like your new hat?
Genius idea. Let’s tax cars. Amazing no one has ever come up with that idea before.
Does that mean we can have trains in Donegal and actual local busses?
Its jokes when I have friends visit from Dublin and ask are we getting the bus somewhere………
WHAT BUS
Now remember he said “more space” for public transport not “more public transport”
These people are fucking mental, provide the public transport first
Offer little to no viable public transport outside of Dublin. Then try to ‘reduce car usage’, Can’t wait to elect these cunts out to fuck.
Oh.. A tax? What a wild new way of looking at things.
That’s why I love our government – always re-inventing themselves with shocking brilliance. Never afraid to try a different approach and trailblaze a new path for a better future.
Climate change! The gift that keeps on giving!
​
They’ll suck every last hydrogen atom out of that ball! Eamon is sucking much of the helium already.
Waiting for all the urban dwelling, working from home, college educated bourgeoisie to tell me how this is a great idea. Somehow in their head they’ll find a way to justify Punitive taxes that disproportionately hit the working poor and the rural poor. Cunts.
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